Harlette have released two new highlights in the #ITGIRLLINGERIETV show series
The first Harlette Highlight is Harlette Heartlette
Take the journey from Sydney to Paris to London and follow the creation of the Heartlettes that get launched in Paris and then make it a TV show called the Next Big Thing and invited to a magazine shoot in London
The second Harlette Highlight released today is Made in UK a look at the collection of Luxury Lingerie made in London for the pilot Catwalk for IT Girl Lingerie TV show and set to backdrop of video in London you might recognise someone in this video
Harlette are getting ready to celebrate 10 years. Can you believe that the launch of our 1st Catwalk in Paris was almost one decade ago.
What a better way to celebrate this, Harlette got inspiration on plane from London to Hollywood and decided to create something so luxury, so soft and something to keep the special one in your life warm when you cant be with them.
Harlette released the 1st look of the new design in Cashmere this week via twitter
It is – a cashmere wrap with Cities that Harlette launched their catwalk
The 1st look has Paris and Hollywood for those of you that know the story and those of you that are just discovering the heritage of Harlette.
The very 1st catwalk was in Paris at Salon International de la Lingerie and only a few weeks later the collection was invited to showcase as part of an Oscar’s style lounge in Hollywood.
These are just 2 of the cities featured on this new piece by Harlette.
The piece is custom hand made and takes a couple of weeks to have it hand stitched with the cities.
The wait for this piece is exquisite and when you touch it for the first time its like nothing on this planet.
Its a dream come true, this new design just added to the collection.
The headlines showed the Queen relaxed and smiling. Her Majesty viewed Richard Quinn’s runway show alongside Dame Anna Wintour. Richard is the first recipient of The Queen Elizabeth II Award for British Design
Earlier on in the day I discovered on my mums computer two things that my grandfather had received a #distinguishedorderofservice by the King in 1941 in the UK and the letter that was sent confirming that Harlette selected for costume as part of the secret diary of a call girl show.
#themostinterestingthingonmymumscomputer
Only a few weeks ago I was front row in Paris at the Lingerie Show, using a Microsoft phone and Microsoft Surface I have uploaded some video’s on twitter of the view from front row.
I also visited the place where the very first bikini made its 1st debut in the world in 1946 at the art deco pool in Paris and filmed during the evening and the morning
Before the end of the year I also I had the opportunity to meet George Osborne and hear his most amazing story on Graphene and how he helped the UK be very forward thinking. George then made a bold move with nobel peace prize winners, to establish a National Centre for Graphene in Manchester and inviting the Chinese president Xi Jinping to UK to Manchester. What an amazing story
More on this later as you know Harlette is testing this amazing material in Sweden, thanks to some amazing people in Texas to develop new products for the company combining tech with fashion.
In 1907, at the height of her popularity, Australian Annette Kellerman was arrested on Revere Beach, Massachusetts, for indecency – she was wearing one of her fitted one-piece costumes
I have been hesitant to write on this subject of the French beach Burkini ban when I have personally visited Saudi Arabia as part of the KSA Lingerie Campaign. I have worn and been photographed wearing a hijab and its for this reason I thought it would be sensible to remain neutral. I don’t vote in France and when I visit France I wear a bikini or one piece.
I have decided to comment, as on Thursday outside the French Embassy in London a protest was conducted by women wearing Burkini’s. The tradition and culture of France is being challenged coerced and condemned on the streets of London and in beloved Britain.
As someone that has had a bikini 100% made in France and launched my very first Bikini range in Paris, France in 2013, I have to stand up for #teambikini.
Tradition, Culture are being bounced about, like the wobbly bits bursting from the bikini bottom and tiny triangle tops and all the while the traditions of relaxing on the beach in peace, worshipping the sun, reading a good book, taking a dip in the ocean are being over taken by statement swimsuits on the beach.
But its not the first time someone has been arrested on a beach in a swimsuit and I doubt it will be the last. Annette Kellerman was arrested on Revere Beach, Massachusetts, for indecency when she wore one of her fitted one piece costumes in 1907.
Ironically Annette Kellerman born and bred in Sydney Australia, ended her days on the Gold Coast. I was born in Sydney moved to the Gold Coast and my family live there today.
Papers are claiming that the creator of the Burkini is Australian but Ms Zanetti was born in Lebanon and immigrated.
Following the 2005 riots, Cronulla council invited Muslim women to become lifesavers in an effort to make the beach more inclusive.
Ms Zanetti was commissioned to design a modest version of the iconic red and yellow swimsuit for the new volunteers to wear.
Elastic Heart
The world is wondering What exactly is the power of 25cm of Lycra material & 2 meters of elastic.
France is at the forefront of the “Butt Four”(but for) the Bikini test. Making a monumental case for less is indeed more.
Most of the beaches where bans have been imposed are on the Riviera in south-east France.
However, few are thought to have issued fines other than the authorities at Cannes and Nice, where more than 20 fines have been handed out
Barbara Streisand in the sixties sang a song titled when in Rome do as the Romans do?
So what do the Romans do in France they wear bikini’s they even go topless.
What do the Romans do in Britain, they wear Bikinis 👙 which is 100% more modest than the Freikörperkulturst ‘nudist’ camps in Germany or the fondness for nude sauna’s and birch beating branches practices in Scandinavia.
What do the Romans do Down Under on Bondi Beach ? They wear Bikinis 👙 well every one except Nigella!
What do the romans do in USA well the beach boys sang it so successfully
The West coast has the sunshine
And the girls all get so tanned
I dig a French bikini on Hawaii island
Dolls by a palm tree in the sand
I wish they could be California girls.
There is a beach volleyball game of ideas being served up. I’m standing firmly in the quick sand on the side of “team bikini” I stand ready to serve a volley to win game set & match on the shoulder of giants. Icons of the perfect 10, Bo Derek in a bikini 👙 ?
The journey of a bikini 👙 is a fascinating and alluring and down right glamorous in moments. Starting in France its designed, colour pallets set by trend agents and presented to professionals at the trade shows in Paris & Lyon.
A year later your buying a bikini 👙 for your summer 🎆 holiday. Something that everyone has experienced by birth right is the right to wear a bikini 👙 at the beach.
Well that was what I thought until June 2009, I was looking at the sea & a beach off the shore of Jeddah. Not a bikini in sight, well in Jeddah, the romans don’t do bikinis 👙 The rule of law is enforced by the religious police.
The Islamic religious police (Arabic: مطوع muṭawwiʿ, plural مطوعونmuṭawwiʿūn – derived from Arabic: mutaṭawwiʿa/muṭṭawwiʿa) is the official vice squad of some Islamic states, who on behalf of the state, enforces Sharia law in respect to religious behavior (morality), or the precepts of Wahhabism.
Anything that breaks the laws of morality are brought to the attention of the mutaween and was the very reason I was standing in Saudi Arabia in the first place. Images of women in lingerie were blacked out 100%, men were only allowed to sell lingerie products and the woman that invited me into Saudi had been stopped by the religious police for trying to remove the label to view what the lingerie product looked like.
In 2016, with people protesting, outside the French embassy in London wearing a Burkini. How many of the British women have been to middle east countries with dress restrictions against the right to wear a bikini?
What point are they making?
I was unable to wear my normal clothes, I had to wear an abaya and hijab, I was respectively adhering to law staying in my hotel room not being in public alone. Definitely not defiantly wearing a bikini on Jeddah seafront. When in Rome, I did as the Romans did! I covered up, I changed, I respected the customs the law and the local dress style.
I ask the simple question why is the western legal system being challenged by those that are not OK to follow when in Rome do as the Romans do! You cant have the rule of law, all times, all countries, otherwise we then have a single government, a single rule, that supersedes all countries.
Can there be grounds for “Bikini Exit”? Was Brexit a partial response to EU law superseding British law. Other wise what is the point of a constitution, royal families, privy councils and individual nations government.
Could the Bikini actually be the symbol of The right to vote in your country, your local government and your local council. How and why does the “burkini” symbolise human rights in 21st century?
What do nuns do when they visit the beach?
Why have we not seen a claim of a habit to be worn on a beach as human rights?
I might make light, to make a point of this? I might jest about a “Butt Four” test. But would any one come and save me, defend me, and claim my human rights if I made a decision to wear a bikini 👙 on a Saudi beach?
Of course being a rational, and law abiding visitor to another nation. Its not an action I would take. Only for the sake of debate do I illustrate the two sides of the Lycra liability.
Big words like human rights are being attached to 1 meter of Lycra with a zipper versus 25 cm of Lycra with 2 meters of Elastic.
Who where and when will my human right to wear a bikini on Jeddah beach be defended. The answer is never, so why are these big two words, being associated with what is happening on the Riviera.
Harlette Swim debuted their 2nd Swim collection, in the Caribbean on the island of Curacao as part of international Swim Fashion Week. Included a 100% made in France luxury bikini called Jet Set. The jet set bikini features iconic Paris, and 100% made in Britain Velvet which is 1st in the world design by Harlette.
The Harlette Swim collection was launched in the Caribbean on the island of Curacao, as part of International Swim Fashion Week Harlette were the only British Brand to be invited to showcase the collection. The Collection includes Bikinis, Plunge One Pieces Harlette’s Signature Design Bikini. Featuring exotic prints from Tahiti, to Atacama Desert to Arrive in Paris. This inspiration behind the collection is the journey of the Black Pearl and the trip it travelled from Tahiti to make the first show in Paris.
The British brand, rated by the Economic Times as the 5th most unique company to supply services globally and as seen on Billie Piper in the 4th and final series of Secret Diary of a Call Girl. Harlette have moved production back o UK, Harlette are the only company in the world to hold a patent for a diamond and platinum suspender clips and the first company in the world to make a luxury south sea pearl lingerie set. Harlette have a couture lingerie service in London 100% made in Britain.
The concierge on demand bespoke service is available for delivery globally. Appointments are made when you arrive in London. You make your selection & Design and Construction of your garment will then follow and can be shipped to your home or holiday destination if you leave London.
The media is awash with the news of offshore investments Panama Gate, resignations of Iceland’s Prime Minister, but something that caught my attention was an article in the guardian on sweat shops in Myanmar.
All this talk of Offshoring got me thinking about Onshoring. Since 2009 Harlette have been practitioners of Onshoring, beginning with designing & manufacturing in Australia.
This is an example of Australian Design and Manufacturing recently on Catwalk in Caribbean on the island of Curacao as part of International Swim Fashion Week.
Kia Archer, from Elite Miami models Riviera Rouge 100% Silk & French Lace
Harlette expanded the Onshoring activities for Luxury Lingerie Manufacturing to UK in 2015 this is 100% made in London with a collection of 8 to 12 styles available in 10 days.
Sharon Fonseca from Ford, model’s Harlette couture Cleopatra ShowPiece
Featuring 100% UK Linton Tweed made into luxury lingerie
Harlette in 2016 have expanded Onshoring Manufacturing to France last month. To produce this luxury bikini, first run 10 days from fabric selection manufacture to final finish.
Harlette approach to limited edition Luxury is unique in the world just as you are unique.
If your discovering Harlette for the first time, our consistent approach to sourcing luxury fabrics and French lace quality sees our collections selected by stylists, TV shows and magazines.
Harlette onshore all luxury design, manufacturing in three countries Australia, Britain & France globally. Including the only luxury company in world to have a patent for platinum & diamonds suspenders and worlds first south sea pearl luxury lingerie set.
The Economic Times listed Harlette company as the 5th most unique company to provide services globally
Harlette provides you with 100% certainty where your luxury garments are made and manufactured and Harlette delivers to you anywhere in the world.
Hannah Flattery models couture Baby Doll
100% made in London on ISFWCuracao Catwalk in Caribbean
Jetset Luxury Bikini by Harlette began life in France just a few days ago, it took just 5 day to make. The bikini left France Monday, arrived in London Tuesday, passed through Miami Friday, to arrive in the Caribbean Saturday to be the star in a sizzling hot beach shoot on the island of Curacao.
There is acrobatic ribbon dancing and a sweet serenade between lovers embracing and climbing on each other as the show intensifies.
Then, arrives without warning, a moment when you scratch your head, and ask really is this what people want?
Reality
Well in Paris on the 25th of January 2016, that is what the crowd clapped and cheered for. In the Garden of Eden, enchantment surrounded, elegance and the best succulent designs from around the globe were not cheered, were not celebrated they were treated as the expected, the mundane, the average and the same.
In a moment of frenzy, what you see in every house around the world in basic traditional colours. Erupted a reaction that one can only describe as Incredible.
Claps and Cheers for “Nana’s in Knickers” as they skipped and sauntered their way through Lingerie Paris catwalk on a Sunday afternoon.
There is a movement of people #JOMO (joy of missing out) and celebrating disconnecting from it all, going to bed at 10pm and getting up a 4am doing life like our grandparents did.
Now with what was on the catwalk in Paris are we going to be looking to our grandparents to be style icons?
Will the ROMCom all white t shirt, blue jeans, white tennis shoes stars from friends be replaced with NormCom, and Nana’s and styles to be defined by normal hair shades, normal colour palettes.
Is this what society craves right now, Normal?
Or is it something more delicious than this?
That Femininity of all ages is timeless, that no age group is going to be left out. That the catwalk is no longer something exclusive for a younger female form.
Big Questions
Is there a revolution starting in Paris that will permeate the annuals of Fashion?
Stop your messing around (ah-ah-ah)
Better think of your future (ah-ah-ah)
Time you straighten right out (ah-ah-ah)
Creating problems in town (ah-ah-ah)
The song permeated what was going on the catwalks, at the core of life, right now its about basics, settling down, accepting what is. The future is very much unknown, but we are going to need the strength and wisdom of all our family, friends, and all age groups to get where we all need to go to in 2016.
Its all about celebration of #NormCore from Paris, with the Designer of the Year being Hanro.
One thing the world agrees on a midnight new years eve moving into the first moments of New Years day is Unity.
Then we forget and move into our fluffy slippers, newspapers, box sets, Netflix, isolation, nationalism, ideology, philosophy or just plain worry, tiredness, forgetfulness and fear.
One of the best quotes from house of cards
Harmony that’s the word that’s stuck in my mind, its not about what’s lasting or permanent, it’s about individual voices coming together for a moment … and that moment lasts the length of a breath…
That’s what I think of at New Year and how I can bring more of this into the rest of the year
Want greater harmony and balance with someone very special, remember the four T’s – tact, timing, trust & (a tiny bit of ) telepathy
Starting with Oslo, Paris, Ho Chi Min City, London and Sydney.. all the cities that I have had the privilege of collecting ideas and meeting wonderful people during 2014
Bonne année tout le monde
felice anno nuovo il tempo per sognare
С Новым годом время мечтать
سنة جديدة سعيدة
새해 복 많이 받으세요
שנה טובה ומבורכת
ευτυχισμένο το νέο έτος
bhliain nua sásta
幸せ新しい年
chúc mừng năm mới
שנה טובה ומבורכת
新年快樂
नया साल मुबारक हो
新年快樂
felice anno nuovo
새해 복 많이
gelukkige nuwe jaar
glückliches neues Jahr
bhliain nua sásta
szczęśliwego nowego roku
godt nytt år
This is where I spent New Year in Norway minus 18 degrees
making love hearts in the snow and watching sunrises
over the same place Monet did back in 1895 when he created this piece of his collection
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